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Dead Heat: Why Are Republicans Struggling To Win On This Red Map?
The fundamentals of the 2014 Senate map are tilted toward the Republicans, with Democrats defending seven seats in states that Mitt Romney won. And yet, with only four days until Election Day, the polls are all tied up.
Harvard Poll Gets It Wrong: Millennials Aren't Massively Shifting Right
The "Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service" asked the wrong questions, and thus fails to paint an accurate picture of the challenges that underlie millennials' political beliefs.
How Racist Policies Made Ferguson a Pocket of Concentrated Despair
An elaborate mythology blames a “culture of poverty” for pockets of concentrated despair, like Ferguson. Another view holds that whites simply fled such areas. But a new study blames a century of intentionally discriminatory policies.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Worry About Governing "Civil war looms for GOP" reports The Hill: "Conservatives salivating over the prospects of a huge victory on Nov. 4 are pressuring House and Senate GOP leaders to go big after Election Day ... The problem for Speaker John Boehner...
Corporations Act To Make Congress A Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Unless voters come out in force, it looks like corporate money is about to buy itself another house of Congress.
For the American people, the moral of this story couldn't be clearer.
New Insight Into A Democratic Populist Path To Victory
Stan Greenberg still sees a way for Democrats to have a good outcome Tuesday – and it's through the party's base in the "rising American electorate." But to get there, Dems will have to pivot to a more populist message.
Rioting in Black and White: From Pumpkin Fest To Ferguson, And Back
A riot in New Hampshire, and a likely grand jury decision not to indict in Ferguson, Missouri, underscore that blacks and whites still live in very different Americas, under very different rules.
7 Signs That the American Dream is Dying
The key elements of the American dream—a living wage, retirement security, the opportunity for one’s children to get ahead in life—are increasingly unreachable for all but the wealthiest among us.
Empathy Deficit Disorder
Almost two-thirds of working Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. And they’re worried sick about whether their kids will ever make it. At the very least, they need leaders who empathize with what they’re going through.
Progressive Breakfast
House May Get Even More Extreme Tea Party may get boost in House. W. Post: "Six to eight new lawmakers are likely to replace incumbent Republicans in deep-red districts, primarily in the South ... backed by the tea party movement and will be more likely than their...
